{"id":11245,"date":"2017-10-12T17:40:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T21:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11245"},"modified":"2017-10-12T17:40:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T21:40:56","slug":"board-card-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/board-card-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Board &#038; card games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for an update to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/board-games\/\">this list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The board games (and a few card games) I&#8217;m listing here are sometimes called Eurogames &#8212; often made in Europe, they rely on more strategy and less luck. My other list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/card-games\/\">card games<\/a> is a list of games you can play with a regular deck of cards.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on whether it&#8217;s an odd or even day, I&#8217;ll say Settlers of Catan or Ticket to Ride is the best board game ever made.<\/p>\n<p>Longer Games (roughly 45 to 75 minutes)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best of the best\n<ul>\n<li>7 Wonders<\/li>\n<li>Candamir: The First Settlers<\/li>\n<li>Carcassonne<\/li>\n<li>Cities and Knights of Catan<\/li>\n<li>Dominion<\/li>\n<li>Elasund: The First City<\/li>\n<li>Elfenland<\/li>\n<li>The Settlers of Catan<\/li>\n<li>Starfarers of Catan<\/li>\n<li>Ticket to Ride Europe<\/li>\n<li>Tzolk&#8217;in: The Mayan Calendar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Runner ups\n<ul>\n<li>Alhambra<\/li>\n<li>Blue Moon City<\/li>\n<li>El Grande<\/li>\n<li>Jamaica<\/li>\n<li>Lost Cities: The Board Game<\/li>\n<li>Pandemic +<\/li>\n<li>Robo Rally<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek Panic +<\/li>\n<li>Takenoko<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shorter Games (roughly 15 to 45 minutes)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best of the best\n<ul>\n<li>10 Days in Africa<\/li>\n<li>Ingenious<\/li>\n<li>Wooly Bully<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Runner ups\n<ul>\n<li>6 nimmt!<\/li>\n<li>Blokus Trigon<\/li>\n<li>Camel Up<\/li>\n<li>Colt Express<\/li>\n<li>Kingdom Builder<\/li>\n<li>Qwirkle<\/li>\n<li>Tokaido<\/li>\n<li>Ubongo<\/li>\n<li>Zooloretto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2 Player Games<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best of the best\n<ul>\n<li>Battle Line<\/li>\n<li>Catan Card Game<\/li>\n<li>Dragonheart<\/li>\n<li>Lost Cities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Runner up\n<ul>\n<li>Race for the Galaxy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of these games have different versions or expansions &#8212; I&#8217;ve listed the version I&#8217;ve played most often.<\/p>\n<p>+ These games are cooperative.<\/p>\n<p>One game from &#8220;the old days&#8221; that&#8217;s still worth playing is Scotland Yard, made in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Other games I might add to the list if I play them one or two more times include Taluva, Between Two Cities, and Lord of the Rings.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read information or reviews of board games, you could look on BoardGameGeek <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/browse\/boardgame\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for an update to this list. The board games (and a few card games) I&#8217;m listing here are sometimes called Eurogames &#8212; often made in Europe, they rely on more strategy and less luck. My other list of card games is a list of games you can play with a regular deck of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[40,57,42],"class_list":["post-11245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-board-games","tag-games","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11245"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11258,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11245\/revisions\/11258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}